Microsoft® SharePoint® Designer 2010 Unleashed

Creating a Custom Action to Print Lists

To help highlight the benefits of using custom list actions in SharePoint Designer, I use a solution that was originally deployed using a custom Feature. In the following example, I use Ishai Sagi’s example of a creating a list view print action for SharePoint 2007 lists, which is still relevant in SharePoint 2010, and works for both lists and libraries. But in this case, rather than creating a custom Feature to deploy and install the custom action, I leverage the built-in custom action capabilities in SharePoint Designer 2010 to create the custom action and make it available in the LIM.

Immediately, in using SharePoint Designer, the workload required to create my custom action is minimized and the need ...